{"id":364760,"date":"2026-08-06T23:18:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-06T23:18:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/364760\/"},"modified":"2026-08-06T23:18:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-06T23:18:09","slug":"miami-dade-teen-makes-history-as-worlds-youngest-male-professor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/364760\/","title":{"rendered":"Miami-Dade teen makes history as world\u2019s youngest male professor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text text--small text--normal text--primary\">Published:\u00a0August 6, 2026 at 6:17 PM<\/p>\n<p>An 18-year-old Miami Dade College professor is making history as the youngest male professor recorded by Guinness World Records.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">MIAMI-DADE COUNTY, Fla.  \u2014 An 18-year-old Miami Dade College professor is making history as the youngest male professor recorded by Guinness World Records.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Nathan Thomas, who is younger than many of his students, teaches engineering courses online at Miami Dade College.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Thomas began taking classes at Miami Dade College when he was just 10 years old and earned his associate degree at 14.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cIf you go to school earlier, don\u2019t get influenced by other people\u2019s decisions or paths because it\u2019s different from yours,\u201d Thomas said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Thomas later earned both his bachelor\u2019s and master\u2019s degrees in electrical engineering before returning to Miami Dade College to teach.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">He is now entering his second year of law school.<\/p>\n<p>\ud83c\udfe0 News From Your Neighborhood<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-article-body__copyright\">Copyright 2026 by WPLG Local10.com &#8211; All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"Ryan Mackey\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/https:\/\/author-service-images-sandbox-us-east-1.publishing.aws.arc.pub\/wplginc\/8725e99c-e445-48a0-bd.jpeg\"  width=\"100\" height=\"100\"\/>Ryan Mackey <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-author-bio__author-description\">Ryan Mackey is a Digital Journalist at WPLG. He was born on Long Island, New York, and has lived in Sunrise, Florida, since 1994.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Published:\u00a0August 6, 2026 at 6:17 PM An 18-year-old Miami Dade College professor is making history as the youngest&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":364761,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[123,125,124],"class_list":["post-364760","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-miami","tag-miami","tag-miami-headlines","tag-miami-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364760","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=364760"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364760\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/364761"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=364760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=364760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=364760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}